Approved Code No. 9-Amendment No. 20 Registry No. 313-1-06 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO· 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

LUMBER AND TIMBER 

PRODUCTS INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON SEPTEMBER 9, 1934 

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Approved Code No. 9-Amendment No. 20 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

LUMBER AND TIMBER PRODUCTS INDUSTRY 

As Approved on September 9, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING AMENDMENTS TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE 

LUMBER AND TIMBER PRODUCTS INDUSTRY 

An application having been duly made pursuant to and in full 

compliance with the provisions of Title I of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, for approval of Amendments 

submitted as Lumber Code Authority Amendments Nos. 60 and 61 

to the Code of Fair Competition for the Lumber_ and Timber Products Industries, and hearings having been duly held thereon and 

the annexed report on said Amendments, containing findings with 

respect thereto, having been made and directed to the President: 

NO~r, THEREFORE, on behalf of the President of the United 

States, I, Hugh S. Johnson, Administrator for Industrial Recovery, 

pursuant to authority vested in me by Executive Orders of the 

President, including Executive Order No. 6543-A, dated December 

30, 1933, and otherwise; do hereby incorporate, by reference, said 

annexed report and do find that said Amendments and the Code as 

constituted after being amended comply in all respects with the 

pertinent provisions and will promote the policy and purposes of 

said Title of said Act, and do hereby order that said Amendments 

be and they are hereby modified to include an approval of said Code 

in its entirety as amended, provided that if and when there is submitted for my approval an Amendment to said Code which provides 

for the creation of a Division of said Code applicable to wholesalers 

of lumber, irrespective of the species of such lumber or the manner 

of its transportation, the matter of transferring the California 

Water Distributors Subdivision of the ,vest Coast Logging and 

Lumber Division to such new Division applicable to wholesalers of 

lumber, as a Subdivision of such Division, shall be submitted for 

my further consideration and order; and 

Provided further, that this Order shall not become effective for 

a period of fifteen ( 15) days after the date hereof in order that consideration may be given to objections thereto, if any, by any inter848960-1181-29-34 (1) 
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ested parties; at the expiration of said period this Order shall become effective, unle s I have, by my f urther order, otherwise det-ermined. 

Approval recommended : 

c. E. ADAMS, 

R uan S. JOHNSON, 

Administrator f 01· I ndustrial R ecovery. 

Division Admi1'li. trator. 

WASHINGTOX, D.C., 

Se7Jtenibe1· D, 193.6 . 
REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT., 

The White H oiise. 

Sm: Under the Code of Fair Competition fm: the Lumber and 

Timber Products Industries, as approved by you on August 19, 

1933, the Lumber Code Authority has submitted its Amendments 

No ·. 60 and 61, ,, hich are included and attached. 

This is a report on the Hearing on the foregoing Amendments 

conducted in the Carlton Room of the Carlton Hotel, Washington, 

D.C., on March '27 to March 30, 1934, in accordance with the provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act. 

These ~-linend111ents establish an Administrative Subdivision for 

California ~Vater Distributors under the vV est Coast Logging and 

Lumber Division. 

Approximately fifteen to twenty percent of the West Coast lumber 

is marketed through the California ports anrl the California Wholesalers' Lumber Association, the proponents of these Amendments, 

repr sent eighty percent of the volume of the lumber distributed in 

California. 

The manufacturers and wholesalers engaged in di tribution in this 

territory are closely inter-related and both are agreed that the 

Amendments will ecure stabilization of the market and protect- both 

manufacturers and distributors. 

The Amendment also establish minimum wages of 40 cents in the 

South and 45 cents in the North, providino· protection for several 

thousand laborers not now protect 0 d by the Code. 

The Deputy Administrator in his final report to me on said 

Amendments to said Code having found a herein set forth and on 

the basis of all the proceedings in this matter; 

I find that: 

(a) The Amendmenfs to said Code and the Code as amendBd are 

well de igned to promote the policies and purposes of Title I of the 

N ationul In lustrial Recovery Act including the removal of obstructions to the free flow of interstate and foreign commerce which tend 

to diminish the amount thereof, and will p·rovide :for the general 

welfare by promoting the organization o:f industry :for the purpose of 

cooperative action among trado groups, by inducing and maintaining united action of labor and management under adequate governmental sanction and supervision, by eliminating unfair competitive 

practice·, by promoting the fulle t possible utilization o:f the present 

productiYe capacity o:f indu trie. ·, by avoiding undue re trictions of 

production ( except as may be temporarily required), by increasing 

the consumption o:f industrial and agricultural products through increasing purchasing power, by reducino- and relieving unemployment, by improving standards o:f labor, and by otherwise rehabilitating industry. 

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(b) The Code as amended complies in all respects with the pertinent provisions of said Title of said Act, including without limitation 

Subsection (a) of Section 3, Subsection (a) of Section 7 and Subsection (b) of Section 10 thereof. 

( c) The Code empowers the Code Authority to present the aforesaid Amendments on behalf of the industry as a whole. 

( d) The Amendments and the Code as amended are not designed 

to and will not permit monopolies or monopolistic practices. 

( e) The Amendments and the Code as amended are not designed 

to and will not eliminate or oppress small enterprises and will not 

operate to discriminate against them. 

( f) Those engaged in other steps of the economic process have not 

been deprived of the right to be heard prior to approval of said 

Amendments. 

For these reasons, therefore, I have approved these Amendments 

to the Code. 

Respectfully, 

HUGH s. JOHNSON' 

Administrator. 
AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR 

THE LUMBER AND TIMBER PRODUCTS INDUSTRY 

AMENDMENT No. 60.-In Article VII (d) in paragraph beginning 

"West Coast", after the line "Fir Plywood .... 40." add the 

following: 

"California Water Distributors : 

"California South of the 35th degree parallel ... 40 

"California North of the 35th degree parallel ... 45" 

AMENDMENT No. 61.-In Schedule "A" at the end of the Section, 

"16 (a) Intercoastal Distributors Subdivi ion" add the following 

new Section : 

"16 (b). California '\V ater Distributors Subdivision: Article II 

( c). The California Water Distributors Subdivision of the '\iV est 

Coast Logging and Lumber Division consists of persons engaged in 

the wholesale distribution of the products of the vVest Coast Logging 

and Lumber Division which are shipped to California by water 

transportation for sale in California and/or for transport by backhaul from California ports. 

"Products: Article II (a). Douglas Fir, '\iVest Coast Hemlock, 

Sitka Spruce, '\iV estern Red Cedar and related species, except ( 1) 

logs, ( 2) poles and piling, ( 3) shingles, ( 4) woodwork, ( 5) hardwood flooring, (6) veneer, (7) plywood, (8 ) kiln dried hardwood 

dimension. 

"Administrative Agency : Article III ( d). The Administrative 

Agency for the California \Vater Distributors Subdivision shall consist of nine member::,, six of whom shall be elected by members of 

the California ""\iVholesale Lumber Association, one of whom shall be 

elected by non-members of the aid Association in the State of California , one of whom ·hall be elected by non-members of said Association in the State of \Vashington, and one of whom shall b"' elected 

by non-members of said Association in the State of Oregon. \Vithin 

thirty (30) days after the effective date hereof, the California ,Vholesale Lumber Association shall call a meeting or meetings and conduct 

elections for th purpose of electing the members of the Administrative Agency of this Subdivision in accordance with the foregoing 

provisions. Due notice of the time und place of said elections 

shall be sent to every a certninable person subject to the jurisdiction of this Subdivi ion in writing or by such other methods as 

are reasonably calculated to notify all interested parties of such 

elections. Said elections shall be conducted in a fair and equitable 

manner; each person subject to the jurisdiction of this Subdivision 

shall be entitled to one vote in person, by letter or by proxy. 

"In the event that any or all of the non-as ociation members of 

the Administrative Agency are not elected at said elections, the 

members of the Administrative Agency so elected may function as 

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the Administrative Agency of this Subdivision; provided that notice of this fact is immediatelv cornmuni ated to the Administrator 

and provided further that the Administrator, if he so elects, may 

appoint members of the Admini trative Agency to represent the 

non-members of the Association in those states who have failed. to 

elect their member of the Administra.tive Agency. Members of the 

Administrative Agency shall serve for terms of one year or until 

their succes'-ors shall have been elected. 

"The Administrative Agency of this Subdivision is designated as 

the Agency of the Authority and of the VI est Coast L ogging and 

Lumber Division of this Code. Said Administrative Agency is 

authorized to make such rules and regulations as are necessary to 

tbdminister the Code in this Subdivision, subject to the approval of 

the West Coast Logging and Lumber Division and of the Authority, 

and may designate and authorize such agencies as may be necessary 

to administer the Code in this Subdivision. Said rules and regulations shall be published and submitted to the National Recovery Ad- ministration and shall become effective fifteen (15) days after the 

Administrator's receipt thereof unless prior to that date they shall 

have been disapproved by the Administrator." 

Approved Code No. 9-Amendment No. 20. 

Registry No. 313-1-06. 

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